Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copy, Off the Wall Street Journal is a worthwhile investment for anyone who thinks that the state of the American economy is something to laugh at. Among the funnier send-ups: a deadpan report on a failed takeover bid by the Mobil Corp., this time for Bill's Hoagie Stop; a slice-of-life jape about the current fascination with economic jargon, depicting a scatological barroom brawl over monopsony, diminishing rates of transformation, and the Laffer Curve...
...Bowie makes love to Kim Novak in a cemetery. David Hemmings (who also directed) plays a Nazi who turns Bowie's corpse into Horst Wessel. The stars keep straight faces and hold the viewer's eye through every narrative absurdity, and the film is handsomer, weirder, certainly funnier than Hardly Working. It would be stylish high-camp fun-if only the Nazis hadn't existed...
...years wound on and the film was postponed, Henry could have only grown more satisfied with his concept. Even the best scriptwriter couldn't have produced a funnier character than Gerald R. Ford. There he stood, simian-like in profile, first skidding down the steps of Air Force One into the waiting arms of the Secret Service and then, in the ongoing battle against inflation donning a big red button with the letters WIN embossed in white. And who can forget Ford's classic performance in the debate with a onetime peanut farmer, when in the century's greatest diplomatic...
...barely tolerated. At that, the quality of his work scarcely matters because his audience applauds even his commonplace remark. He's trapped no matter what he does. When he gets a chance to ask a space visitor what he can do for mankind he gets this sage advice: "Make funnier movies...
Well, this movie is funnier than anything Allen has done since Sleeper. It is also his "fastest," with the wild inventions flashing by almost before they can be picked up. Allen by this time is capable of achieving almost any effect he wants, and he has turned churches into hotels and greenhouses into train stations to get exactly the look he wants. But the whole business is expended upon what may be Allen's ultimate exercise in self-flagellation: why is it necessary to portray the entire viewing public as a bunch of doltish boors? And why should Bates worry...